Category: Sustainability - Page 3 - Value Optimised Retrofit

Does TrustMark’s Updated Quality Assurance Guidance go far enough?

TrustMark have this week issued their updated Quality Assurance Guidance for PAS 2035 public funded retrofit schemes setting, but does this guidance go far enough to protect residents, buildings and ensure that public money is being spent well?

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How to get bid ready for Wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonation Fund (SHDF)

Guidance for Wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) has been published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This guidance, currently published in final draft form, will now go through a period of clarification which will enable the sector to get visibility of what is intended for wave 2.1 and to get #SHDFbidready

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Catch 22: Fuel poverty vs energy efficiency

Whilst new builds are being built to be as energy-efficient as possible, existing homes that need to be retrofitted are pushing low-income families deeper into fuel poverty.

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Is it time to stop ‘glazing’ over home comforts?

Storming the schematics, energy modellers will all too often give computer software carte blanche to select a set of energy efficiency measures, with a 1 dimensional perspective of performance parameters.

Is your retrofit project SHDF eligible?

Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) is widely anticipated to be the best grant funding programme for whole-house retrofit projects. So how can one ensure their project is eligible?

The Green Homes Grant Scheme made simple

The Green Homes Grant (GHG) scheme is helping homeowners across England make key energy efficiency improvements to their houses.

ECO4 vs PAS 2035: The battle of red tape

Can the proposed future design of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) truly work in the new PAS 2035 world?

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has just released its proposal for ECO4, replacing the currently used ECO3 and run from April 2022 until March 2026, with an average annual budget of £1 billion, funded by the energy bills of all electricity users in the UK.

What is Net Zero?

Seemingly the new sustainability buzzword that has cropped up everywhere, what is ‘net zero’ and is it a realistic vision of the future?

In a nutshell, the phrase net zero tries to achieve the balance between the greenhouse gases produced into the atmosphere and those gases are taken out to keep the emissions we release into the atmosphere low.